Networking

Did you know that Donald Trump and Warren Buffett have purchased a networking company in the past few years. Those two are known for being good investors of their money. Sounds like they believe Network Marketing is going to be a good return on investments. The future in coming!

Energy to the power of MonaVie

On June 20th MonaVie came out with a new product. An energy drink they named Emv. That stands for Energy to the power of MonaVie. It is a Hybrid energy drink. It has 80% fruit juice and no added sugars or sweeteners. What a great time to a part of the MonaVie culture.

On a side note did you hear in one of Donald Trumps last books he said that the best way for the average person to become wealthy in today's economy is with network marketing. He even purchased a network marketing company. Networking is an idea who's time has finally come.

May all your dreams come true.
Justin

Residual Income

Residual income is defined as getting paid multiple times for a task that only had to be completed once. For example, most musicians write, sing, and record song one time. After that they receive a royalty every time someone buys the song or a radio plays the song. Same thing with movies. Every time you rent a movie the people who made the movie get a royalty. A royalty is a residual income. Imagine if you were a home builder and built someone their dream home, and then you got paid every month for the rest of your life from those people. Or imagine you repair cars for people and for every mile it gets driven after that they pay you a royalty. A residual income is the only way to do as J. Paul Getty said "The way to be wealthy is to make money while you sleep." I tell you what, when I heard that I thought "Man I don't even do that well when I'm awake, how do you do it when your sleeping?" Residual income. That's where network marketing comes in. Network marketing is the easiest way for the average person to create a residual income. Sure you could buy into a McDonald's franchise and receive residuals on every hamburger that is sold, but that costs a truck load of money just to get started. Now network marketing has been around for a long time now, and for some reason it has a bad rap. But if you look at some current facts you will see that network marketing is the future. The fastest company to hit 1 Billion is sales is not a franchise, its not Wal-Mart, its not even eBay. The fastest is a network marketing company called Mona Vie. They achieved that mark just 3.5 years in business, July 2008.

The reason I bring that up in a residual income article is because with their compensation plan I believe the residual income is more permanent than any other compensation plan in the industry. My favorite two incomes from Mona Vie is the Team Commissions and Executive Check Match. Mona Vie structures on what is called a "New Generation Binary" which means a person only has two teams, a left side and a right side. Team Commissions pay 10 percent of your lesser sides volume. Which means if you left side had 1000 in volume and your right side had 700 in volume then your Team Commission check would be $70.00 That being the case, it benefits you to help your teams grow as big as possible. The bigger your lesser side, the bigger your team commission check. The Executive Check Match pays you a percentage on people in your groups checks. Once you hit an Executive level you get paid a percentage of what your group gets paid. That means if your team makes more money, you make more money. Again it is to your benefit to help others achieve high Executive ranks. At that point you would be earning a permanent residual income, because the more Executive in your team you have the more likely it is that your teams will continue to grow even without your efforts. Why? Because those Executives will help their people go Executive and those Executives will help their people go Executive and it will continue on and on. Hitting the Executive ranks will not happen overnight, but they will not happen if you don't get started. As they say "The journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step"

I leave with this thought "What would you like to have done today that you couldn't because of time and money?" Residual income will give you both time and money.

Enjoy the journey!
Justin

Direct Selling - What is your opinion?

Before I get started on the subject of Network Marketing, Direct Selling, MLM, and so on. I thought that I would start with the question "What are your feelings about that industry?" I would like to hear from people who have both succeeded and failed. I would like to talk about which opportunities you tried. Why you think that you have succeeded or failed. There are many different companies out there, and many people involved as distributors. I believe the hope that they bring back into peoples lives is what most attracts us to them. Sort of a Plan B approach to making money. And logically it has to work. It is worth trying anyway. Isn't it? I mean what if it works, what if my friend or relative showing me this idea does it and I don't? All these went through my head the first time I sat down to presentation. That is after the several months of me putting him off, until I finally said if I come will you stop bothering me? My life has been forever changed since then. I will tell more as days come, but first I would like to hear from some of you.

Joe

Welcome

In this past month our country voted for a new President. Both parties have their pros and cons. Both parties have their differences. What I think surprises me the most, is how divided our country has become on some issues. There are absolute truths. Without them we are giving up what the signers of The Declaration of Independence fought and died for. I believe that common sense has been lost through generations. I believe that self government or taking responsibility for one actions are gone. Those are some of the principles that made this country great. Our country has come to point where saving money on Christmas shopping (not Holiday shopping) is more important than a persons life. I am sure you have heard about the poor gentleman at a store in New York that was trampled to death after the doors were opened. Reports say that some people were angry that they closed the store down and they couldn't shop any more. I bet the family of that worker doesn't care to save money on their Christmas shopping. What dollar amount can you add to a human life?



In the next several post I will share from some of the books I have read about Leadership and will also share some of my current experiences. I am very young in my journey, and do not intend to ever sound like I know everything. I will say that I look forward to many discussions from all angles and views of leadership development and network marketing.

Joe